Article September 8, 1945 Issue

What Jesus Loved

ELLA H. HAY

Those were troublous days, days of unrest, of unhappiness, of disease, bondage to material beliefs, sin, and woe, days of inequalities, of social and economic instability, of dictatorship and inhumanity. Seeking surcease from their trials, people had come from far and near to touch the hem of the Christly garment and be made whole. There were lepers to be cleansed, sick to be made whole, and blind whose sight needed to be restored.

The zealous disciples, guarding the precious moments of the Master, would have brought to him for healing only those who in their estimation had a claim on him. This was neither time nor place for children, they thought. Let the little ones wait a more convenient season. But rebuking the disciples, Jesus said (Luke 18:16), "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."

This incident is thought-provoking, and in it may be found a valuable lesson for humanity vainly searching for health, happiness, and supply in matter. In effect the great Teacher said: The kingdom of God which you seek, is to be found in those qualities of thought natural to little children. It is not the wisdom of years that ushers us into the kingdom, not the display of scholarship, nor exalted position, but rather is it innocence, purity, faith, spontaneity.

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